E. Clephan Palmer

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E. Clephan Palmer
Born1883
Ipswich
Died4 July 1954
Blyth, Suffolk
OccupationJournalist

Ernest Clephan Palmer (1883 – 4 July 1954) was a British author, journalist and psychical researcher.

Biography

Palmer was born in Ipswich and worked for forty years as an editor for the Daily News and the News Chronicle. For twenty-three years Palmer was a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and its Chairman in 1951.[1] Throughout his career he also worked for the West Sussex Gazette, the Daily Express, the Morning Leader and the Daily Mail.[2]

Palmer was Parliamentary Correspondent for the News Chronicle and with the support of his friend

C.B.E.[4]

Palmer was interested in animal welfare. His book The Solitary Blackbird published in 1954 described his and his wife's experiences in caring for a young blackbird.[1]

Psychical research

Palmer was interested in psychical research and spiritualism, he was a friend of the psychical investigator Harry Price.[5] In his book The Riddle of Spiritualism published in 1927, Palmer came to the conclusion that most mediumship and phenomena observed in the séance is the result of fraud, however, he believed telepathy to explain some cases of mental mediumship. He wrote there is no scientific evidence for the spirit hypothesis in mediumship but the question of survival should still be kept open.[6]

Publications

  • The Riddle of Spiritualism (1927)
  • The Young Blackbird (1953)
  • The Solitary Blackbird (1954)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Johnson, Sally Patrick. (1962). Everyman's Ark: A Collection of True First-person Accounts of Relationships Between Animals and Men. Harper. p. 60
  2. ISBN 978-0948403552
  3. ^ Hunter, Peter. (1963). Oscar Slater: The Great Suspect. Collier Books. p. 226
  4. ^ St Edmund Hall Magazine 1963-64. p. 41
  5. ISBN 978-0879511609
  6. ISBN 978-0766179318
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